#viv

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

Exister est un fait, vivre est un art. Tout le chemin de la vie, c’est passer de l’ignorance à la connaissance, de la peur à l’amour. ↗

— Frédéric Lenoir

#art

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#martial-arts #size #survival #art

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspiration #survival #courage

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #come #curiosity #end #i

No te aficiones más que a lo que te acontezca y a lo que forme la trama de la vida. ¿Pues qué otra cosa podrá serte más oportuna? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#art

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspirational #survival #courage

Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” The Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis ↗

— Laura Davis

#child-sexual-abuse #courage #fear #healing #mental-health

You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#revival #time #beauty